What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?

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Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993

I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.

Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 10 September 0800 source ↗

Amy Tan Novelist; author of The Joy Luck Club

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people, and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 972691200 source ↗

Freddie Hubbard Jazz trumpeter and composer

I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened.

Recorded Tony Cox, NPR News & Notes, 1228089600 source ↗

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